Band-cutter and feeder.



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BAND CUTTER AND FEEDER.

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Patented Dec. 30, I902. W. MIKS.

BAND CUTTER AND FEEDER.

(Application filed Feb. 13, 1902.)

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BAND CUTTER AND FEEDER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 716,919, dated December 30, 1902.

Application filed February 13,1902. Serial No. 93,988. (No model- 7 To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WVALTER MIKS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mayfield, in the county of Sumner and State of Kansas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Band-Cutters and Feeders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to band-cutters and feeders; and the object of my invention is to produce radically new mechanism for separating or disintegrating the bundles as they approach the threshing-machine. I employ for this purpose three sets of rotary wheels provided with peripheral teeth, as hereinafter described.

A great advantage of my rotary separators is that they keep the grain lying straight across the conveyer,while all machines which employ oscillatory separators or spreaders cause tangling or roping of the grain.

Other objects and advantages of my invention will appear hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is,

a right-hand side elevation of a band-cutter and feeder embodying my invention, showing also the connected end of a threshing-machine broken away. Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation showing the interior of the band-cutter and feeder and the threshing-cylinder.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the band-cutter and feeder and the threshing-cylinder, omitting for clearness the conveyer. Fig. 4 represents the pulleys and belts on the left-hand side of the band-cutter and feeder.

The arrows in said views indicate the directions of rotation of the rotary parts.

1 1 designate the sides of the frame of the band-cutter and feeder. The conveyer 2, of usual construction, is actuated by sprockets 3 3 and is supported by rollers 4 5 and passes around sprockets 6 6 at the rear end of the conveyer-frame.

Mounted on a transverse rotatable shaft 7 above the conveyer 2 are a plurality of bandcutting wheels 8, each wheel comprising four curved knives, as shown.

In front of the band-cutting wheels 8 are three sets of separator-wheels 9 1O 11, secured on rotatable shafts 12 13 14, respectively. Each wheel 9 1O 11 is provided with peripheral teeth 15, which may be integral with said wheels or secured thereto.

is a pinion 23, which engages a gear-wheel 24,

which is secured on theshaft 25, which carries the conveyer-driving sprockets 3 3. On the right-hand end of shaft 7 is a pulley 26, and on the right-hand end of shaft 13 is a pulley 27. A belt- 28 passes around pulleys 26, 27, and 1S and over pulley 21, as shown in Fig. 1, thereby transmitting motion from the threshing-cylinder shaft 17 to the conveyer 2, cutting-wheels 8, and separators 9 10 11.'

On the left-hand side of the machine, Fig. 4, pulleys 28 29 30 are secured on shafts 14 12 7, respectively. A belt 31 connects pulleys 28 and 29, and a belt 32, running over belt 31, connects pulleys 28 and 30. 33 and 34 are belt-tightener pulleys for belts 28 and 32, respectively. Thus all three separator-shafts are driven in the same direction. The pulleys are proportioned so that the first set of separators 9 will make about six hundred revolutions per minute, the second set 10 about seven hundred per minute, and the third set 11 about eight hundred per minute. The eifect of this is that the bundles are efficiently torn apart by the time the grain reaches the threshing-cylinder, and tendency to roping is obviated by the continuous motion of the separator-wheels.

The grain is carried toward the threshingmachine by the flights of the conveyor, and the band-cutters and separators then act on the grain, as described hereinbefore.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

In a band-cutter and feeder, the combination of the four transverse shafts 7, 12, 13

and 14, a plurality of band-cutter wheels mounted on said shaft 7, a plurality of separator-wheels mounted on each of said other three shafts, peripheral teeth 011 said separator-wheels, pulleys 28, 29 and 30 on adjacent ends of shaft-s 14, 12, and 7, respectively, a belt connecting pulleys 28 and 29, a longer belt running over said belt and connecting pulleys 28 and 30, pulleys 27, 33 and 26 on the opposite ends of shafts 13, and 12, and

7, respectively, a conveyer-driving pulley 21, threshing cy1inder is approached, substana threshing-cylinder-driving pulley 18, a belt tially as described. 10 passing over all five of said pulleys, and In testimony whereof I affix my, signature means for driving the threshing-cylinder, in the presence of two Witnesses.

the sizes of said pulleys being so proportioned WALTER MIKS.

that said shafts 12, 13 and 14 will be driven Witnesses:

in the same direction at progressively-difierl K. M. IMBODEN,

ent speeds, which speeds increase as the M. L. LANGE. 

